What are you listening to right now ?

Subject: Re: What are you listening to right now ? Fri 21 Mar 2008 - 23:30

definitely! i love the Monstersmy favourite LP.: REVEREND BEAT-MAN AND THE CHURCH OF HERPES -"your favorite position is on your knees" fucking voice (whiskey is your best friend).. ."REVEREND BEAT-MAN & THE CHURCH OF HERPES, is a project of two completely different styles of music who has nothing to do with each other in the normal circus of the Music Industry… but they did it.. they mix up Gospel Rock’n’Roll with Industrial Analog Craut Electro.. and the Result is Craut influed Gospel from hell mixed up with Analogue electro trash.."reviews.:"The music consists of creaky organs and creepy industrial electro rhythms. Truly this is hellish music. You can imagine it as the soundtrack of some slasher movie yet to be made, a portrait of a rockabilly werewolf l killer. Beat-Man has the voice of an evil robot disguised as a freak-show barker.My favorite tracks here are “Bad Treatment” (Beat-Man as a wounded lover — you can almost feel the revenge fantasies playing out in his head)".JA.!This is Music for people who have the Blues and who want it even worse , Music to beat yourself with your Fist to the head till you bleed, music to make situations you are in even worse..

Subject: Re: What are you listening to right now ? Tue 27 Oct 2009 - 17:51

When it comes to german music from the 70’s, I’m always a bit uneasy. I always loved old Tangerine Dream, most Klaus Schulze, Ash ra, and so on, the so-called “Berliner sound”, but I never really managed to get into “Kraut rock” – Amon Duul always bored me to death, Can is alright but I never listen to the Can records in my collection… I always felt there was too much of a hippie feeling into that rockier side of the german cosmic seventies, not to say “bad Pink Floyd impersonation with a lot of Grateful Dead thrown into it” (actually, I must admit this is true for most continental psychedelic records from the 70’s, but none of these got the “classic” aura of Can… Kraut rock has always been trendier), … Walter Weigmuller’s record is a good illustration of that. This is a double album, concept stuff about the Tarot cards (if I wasn’t obsessed with Tarot too, that would probably make me laugh), played by a dream-team line-up featuring Klaus Schulze and Manuel Gotsching ; part of it is good cold “kozmische” stuff, almost dark-ambient ; part of it sounds like any hippie band jamming, psych blues-rock babbling topped with mellotron. Which is nothing wrong, but can be quite boring, if there’s no strong musical personality behind (the same tracks, if Robert Fripp or Richard Pinhas were there, would probably be top-notch !) or some good vocal appeal (try some Daevid Allen ? Edward Ka-Spell ?) … After many listens, I’m still perplex. 70’s rock definitely needed a punk revolution…